Is this the most reddit book in existence? I'm finding it nearly impossible to finish due to the reddit prose >Ermm I'm in space...? And I'm a ... scientist? Come on, megabrain! Science this shit!
>>25186831>western Isekai sci fi kinoIt's not isekai by any definition of the word retard Kun. Also, yes you need to go back.
>>25164866This is a tier 2 joke you'd read on a Reddit screencap.
>>25156631Anon-kun...
>>25160132some kind stranger give this guy gold, stat!
Fuck you guys I liked it
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>>25188608It goes on for almost 200 pages and has almost no direction outside of the chapter titles. It also sounds absolutely like nothing he has ever written, at least not that I've seen.
>>25188615I don't know but you piss me off
>>25188624We can do an old timey boxing match if you're in the buffalo area. Afterwards we'll go out for root beer floats.
>>25188547What is this Victoria story anons keep mentioning? Let me in on the joke
>>25188693It's not a joke, it's a really good excerpt one anon shared some time ago.
Post books you loved as a kid. Comfy thread.
>>25187729Yerp
Books I dream about reading to my kids some day. :-)
>>25188635Looks cute, originally in English? Or translated?
>>25188665Only released in Swedish afaik. Got a sequel and a CD-rom spinoff game as well so decently successful for a kids book I'd say.
>>25188689Aww man. I gotta learn Swedish!
the walls of tyrosh editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>25132678
>>25188480Sam killed one easily
>>25188374Near 100% Blackfyre. Also, Littlefinger works for the blackfyres too.
>>25188588Obviously Baratheon have color black.
>>25188151I think Stannis burning Shireen does work on a narrative level Stannis is a man who defined himself by his sacrifice. He sacrificed his health to hold Storm's End. He took on an unhappy marriage because it strengthened the Baratheons. Melisandre comes along and tells him all his hardship, all his sacrifice was for a purpose of being Azor Ahai. He'd never admit it, but this is exactly what Stannis wants to hear. He probably secretly enjoys the idea that his dutiful hardship and sacrifice is for a greater cause than any.And he sacrifices things too even after to achieve his goal. The Seven at first, that's easy because he never liked the Seven.Renly was harder, but it was justifiable because Renly was going to attack and kill him and he never liked Renly too much Edric Storm is an innocent, but Stannis justified it to himself. It was only Davos who kept Stannis from taking that step. I can definitely see Stannis willing to sacrifice Shireen for the entire realm. If he burns her to try and stop the Others, I can accept that. The show having him do it just to melt some fucking snow and the Twenty Good Men is stupid as shit though.
God, Dance is so much more interesting than Feast just a few chapters in.
Do you attempt to read things you're sure you'll hate, or things you know you'll disagree with, in order to better understand them? Do you find it shapes your understanding at all or that it just sets up and reinforces your current opinions? I'm a fan of cranks and manifestos, but I'm not exactly planning to start trying to tap the phoenix amerind bigfoot frequency or doing meth and trying to turn myself into a government owned troonputer. Reading some of the less objectionable feminist lit mostly just made me leas receptive to its ideas.
yes. if i dont come up with more refined reasons to both dislike what i dislike and like what i like, i lose the sense of progress i have for my mental life and i get depressed. things i disagree with prompt me to find new words to dislike them. very seldom do i actually change my mind about things because of a rational argument, usually life experience forces me to change my mind. know thy enemy as they say
>>25188575Yes, I've been reading some contemporary fiction lately, primarily by women, just to see how people think and what they value. I haven't liked what I read, but it's been interesting to critique. I think it's helping my own writing. My views have become more thoroughly entrenched by reading it so far, but I do try to empathize.
>>25188637anything good you've been reading? or at least interesting?
>>25188670It's a *very* recent development haha. Finished Wayward by Dana Spiotta yesterday. It was an interesting glimpse into how people similar to her and the demographic she writes for thinks, and she's quite competent and even occasionally great as a stylist. There were bits of characterization and plot that were quite compelling, but it was overall drowned out by unnatural plotting and digressions, unnuanced political commentary, like she was trying to reach a word count minimum. Much of it struck me as quite false and artificial.
I ran out of space
>>25178831lmao
>>25183826Based pipe smoker and lit enjoyer.
>>25169587most of those books sucks but i'll give you props for the 2nd impact and tricot shoutouts. the arranged ost for 2nd impact is great.
Some more fine lit.
Green books
>>25185985Probably Hypersphere. The PDF comes in at 738 pages. Behind that probably the OG Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra.https://lit.trainroll.xyz/wiki/Collaborative_Works>>25185999Sure, but plays aren't dense at all.
>>25186193Coronameron is 700 pp. too
>>25187292Ah I was only looking at the first volume.
>>25185982I enjoyed the play about Dugin
>>25185982So Gaviloski, do you plan on putting on a performance for these plays?
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Eating God's chicken tonight frens
What do you guys think is the best country to live in? No jokes pls
>>25188657Not a country, but Antarctica
>>25188396What is a Amarillo? What is a San Antone?
just took a shit after being constipated for ten days. needless to say it was a massive shit.
Part 1 was kino. Parts 2 & 3 were meh.
Most boring book I’ve ever read hands down
>>25179181Part 3 was my favourite
>>25188130Which is a sect of Judaism
Loved this book, “Live” nearly moved me to tears. I thought the first 2/3rds or so of the third section was the slowest but it’s pretty good throughout desuIs it “real literature?” I don’t want to enter the genre vs. lit pissing contest but if anything in the genre section might truly deserve the title of literature it must be this kind of book, no?
>>25179234McCarthy is a postmodernism. His prose isn't dense, he does what he wants and people get wet whenever he avoids punctuation.
>>25184082shut up weeb
>>25184082Speak up animeGOD
>>25183653Finally, a good idea.
>>25183643I ordered TPK instead, what am I in for?
>>25187168i still think about that one anon who was rewriting this as an isekai sometimes
>though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows, that all arises out of experience.
ITT: we post pictures and recommendations for liturature based on the pictures.
>>25187409it's a semi-regular thing, idea's been around for a while. search the archives for hundreds like it
>>25187395Meditationes de Prima Philosophia
>>25186107dante and berserk>>25187402jack london. is this not an illustration of jack london?>>25183496"heart of a dog" stars a black dog who aquires human vices, though he is older and shaggier than this dog.>>25181698bram stoker's "carmilla" is about a sexy vampire lady. there's also a sexy vampire in "life for sale" by yukio mishima, but she's clearly stated to be much milfier than jeanette.>>25187385i was only aware of the manga. i cannot recommend the novel as i haven't read it.>>25187394i say kafka has the banal surrealism of the twilight zone. my mother says that "earth abides".
>>25173891>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jjT4AjTUMA
>>25188576It's a jack london illustration
The universe will continue to spread and spread outward. Entropy will turn a chaotic infinity into a homogeneous controlled system. This will take billions of years and in that time humans will push technology to heights we can't imagine. We'll explore and inhabit space and occupy more and more of the universe, just as time allowed our ancestors to multiply in numbers and populate more and more of the Earth. And as the specific people come and go, their physical bodies will be born, and grow, and die. But their thoughts will remain. And Jim Davis' comics, his glorious Garfield comics, are recorded ideas of his that will still be here. Even when the Earth is no longer inhabitable, and humanity has long since moved away to bigger planets, they'll carry with them a record, a record we all keep ... a never-ending feed of ideas, immortal ideas, forever placed in the ether of dualism.
>>25186786AI could never create something as philosophically nuanced as Garfield
extropianist transhumanism is even more retarded than discordianism
In the distant future there will be academic publications of the complete Garfield corpus with a thorough critical apparatus in which scholars debate the meanings of lost cultural references and what type of cat food the so-called "lasagna" could be.
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Most of Marx's writings are either economic books, critiques of Hegelian thought, or historical analysis. He never left a coherent epistemology or metaphysics, and never really developed an ontology. His only philosophical work that I know of are the Manuscripts of 1844, but they remains very poor in their philosophical content. So why is he considered as one of the major thinkers of philosophy when his thought was as complex and philosophically rich as Montesquieu's thought was ?>dialectical and historical materialismMarx used a hegelian method to analyze history and society, but, apart from the German Ideology, he never really developed it. Even then, he doesn't really present a big and structured account for his philosophical thought but rather relies on a philosophical critique and historical presentation.
>>25185562Because nobody ever reads his shit, have you see many Marx quotes?
>>25188026Considering how long humanity has existed, he was right. Capitalism isn't sustainable for the simple reason that the capitalist class isn't just redunant but a major and increasingly expensive and inefficient burden. At some point the burden and harm will become so much that capitalism can no longer afford to support it.Finding solace in fantasies as depicted in the Boom of Disquiet is one thing. Finding solace in self-delusion, is just intellectual self-harm out of frustration the way an animal starts to chew himself from frustration and neurosis or a woman cuts herself. It is better to take some sort of drug that legal or illegal capitalism offers because it is a lot more effective.
>>25188251I rarely see quotes from philosophers except by midwits who hardly read. That's because when you read a book you rarely memorize a quote.
>>25188026>Dismissing the countries that actually implement socialist policies in the way they are theoretically intended, namely, giving opportunity and access to resources to all citizens, particularly young citizensWhy dismiss this? Just because Capitalists always oppose these policies being adopted? The Scandinavian countries at least demonstrate it is possible and leads to positive outcomes.
>>25188026>I have ~80 years to live on this world where suffering is guaranteed to not be solved by socialism in my lifetimeJust as an addendum, because you asked and seem to be despairing, I can tell you what I did. Limit all spending of any kind, live as frugally as you possible can (access to books via the internet is near-free, so that is your best avenue for entertainment and education at almost zero cost), then live with family or room mates (aim for a stable other party to reduce costs further and increase sustainability) then work as much as possible putting as much money as possible into stock investments. Following this model, you can expect to add to investments by at minimum $10k a year, plus 10% growth a year you can retire in like 15 years (if you start as a teen you can retire in your 30s and then have 50 years of free time to pursue hobbies, relationships, or entrepreneurial endeavors on your own terms). Thus, early life can be a slog, but then most of the balance of your life will be leisurely. Again, this is a guaranteed path to a mostly happy life if Capitalism holds sway, whereas if Socialism does win you'll have access to resources regardless. If catastrophe strikes you'd be screwed either way.
Where do you usually get free e-books for your Kindle?
>>25186485i think there are methods to hook rakuyomi to mangadex etc. and just download chapter-by-chapter - but far comfier is to set up ssh and torrent from nyaa etc
>>25186488Everyone who pirates ebooks should use calibre. It auto-converts anything to anything, and can also strip existing DRM off your own stuff (or stuff from Libby)
>>25188604Shame that no matter how good it gets, pdf conversions will forever be awful
>>25187793People think bib is frozen in time since the-eye. You can get anything at Anna's archive or irc or any library overdrive anywhere. With a request worth enough people will straight up purchase a book to upload. I got several in Swedish from bib because people there are desperate for upload.
>>25188626Yeah. It's frustrating how many older books are either PDF-only or the only epub copy has really bad OCR errors.I've tried to tinker with the advanced conversion options before and have had some success, but the spacing is never right.
